Quick hit note: not all hips are created equal. .
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I once did an assessment on a former collegiate three sport female athlete who told me she just could not squat, no matter how hard she tried and how many times her strength coach yelled at her about it. Turns out, she had some seriously retroverted hips and was an absolute CHAMP at sumo deadlifting. With a wider stance and her toes turned out, she could even bust out a decent set of squats. .
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Another example: I have a (diagnosed and imaged) impingement in my right hip. While I could and am definitely work on hip mobility in general (always extra tight in season with travel), barring a surgery to change the shape of the bone in my hips, I can’t really squat with textbook form. .
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Does this mean I should never squat? HA. No. It means I turn my right toe out to create a little more room for my bones to clear in my joint. If you ever look at my videos of me squatting, my right toe is ALWAYS turned out for that reason. .
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What’s this mean? Rather than try to jam everybody into the form you learned in a textbook, do an assessment. See what they’ve got to work with. And then tweak it.

Sorry I’ve been MIA for a while! (Not that anyone’s noticed 😂) but...WE BOUGHT A HOUSE! It’s been a crazy few weeks but things are finally getting settled and today I set up my office so I can get back to the things I love most, aside from Disney movies. Hoping to get updates to the website finished before I go away in a few weeks and then it’s back to uni! 😁